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Charles Dickens (International) assertion Charles Dickens i(A57809 works by)
This international person is included in AustLit to identify a relationship with Australian literature.
Born: Established: 7 Feb 1812 Portsmouth, Hampshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 9 Jun 1870
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
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Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Charles Dickens is included in AustLit because his work is published (in part or in full), advertised or reviewed in Australian colonial newspapers and magazines; and/or is the subject of Australian literary comment, adaptation or creative writing.

  • See also the full Australian Dictionary of Biography Online entry for Charles Dickens.

  • The Sydney newspaper the Southern Queen carried a report in 1845 stating that Dickens was due to visit Australia 'not to make a mere passing visit for the sake of taking notes - but as a settler'.

  • A Van Diemen's Land edition of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, (the Pickwick Papers) was published by Henry Dowling in Launceston in 1838.

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Influence on:
Pip and the Convict Nigel Gray , 2005 single work picture book
An Aussie Christmas Carol : Charles Dickens' Immortal Tale Retold as an Aussie Bush Yarn Kel Richards , 2007 single work children's fiction
The Cricket on the Hearth Frederick Sydney Wilson , 1860 single work poetry
Dotheboys Hall : Mr. Squeers' First Lecture D. F. , 1860 single work poetry
Jack Maggs Peter Carey , 1997 single work novel
A Christmas Carol, or Visions of the Past Present and Future Edward Geoghegan , 1844 single work drama
Oliver Twist Finds a Home Nigel Gray , 2002 single work picture book
Escape of the Artful Dodger David Phillips , Robert Loader , Karen Petersen , 2001 series - publisher film/TV
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